MOSCOW, Sep 10 Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov believes that changing sports citizenship is not something terrible, because athletes should be able to realize themselves. «I am hardly competent to give any assessment. I can only say that, from my point of view, there is nothing wrong with that, athlete should be implemented. I have an example of my wife, an Olympic champion who began her career as a citizen of Belarus, «Peskov told reporters in response to a question about his attitude to the change of sports citizenship by Russian athletes. He explained that his wife, athlete Tatyana Navka, «a Ukrainian, then she was a citizen of Belarus, and then she lived half her life in the United States, because the collapsing Soviet Union could not give her the opportunity to compete.» «And she is grateful to America for that. And then she became a citizen of the Russian Federation and received a gold medal. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with that,» Peskov added.
